The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems

Hanger.
"Well?" said Teddy Henfrey.
"This chap you're speaking of, what my dog
bit. Well--he's black. Leastways, his legs are. I
seed through the tear of his trousers and the
tear of his glove. You'd have expected a sort of
pinky to show, wouldn't you? Well--there
wasn't none. Just blackness. I tell you, he's as
black as my hat."
"My sakes!" said Henfrey. "It's a rummy case
altogether. Why, his nose is as pink as paint!"
"That's true," said Fearenside. "I knows that.
And I tell 'ee what I'm thinking. That marn's a
piebald, Teddy. Black here and white there--in
patches. And he's ashamed of it. He's a kind of
half-breed, and the colour's come off patchy
instead of mixing. I've heard of such things
before. And it's the common way with horses,
as any one can see."